Veteran CPI leader A B Bardhan suffers stroke

December 07, 2015 12:54

Meanwhile, veteran communist leader A B Bardhan was hospitalised in New Delhi this morning after he suffered a paralytic stroke. 92-year old Bardhan, who lives in the CPI Headquarters, felt uneasy around 0800 hours and then lost consciousness. He was immediately rushed to the G B Pant Hospital in central Delhi, CPI leader Atul Kumar Anjaan said.

He described Bardhan's condition as "critical" and said the former General Secretary of the Communist Party of India was admitted in the emergency wing and being taken care of by senior doctors. Bardhan's wife, a professor in Nagpur University, died in 1986. The couple has a son and a daughter.

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